Re: Linksys nic

[Wesley Leonard <marshall@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Which devel (or sometime "Devil") packages do you have installed?

Do you have kernel development, kernel headers, etc?

Bring up old gnorpm and check it out...

Mandrake 7.0 is roughly Redhat 6.1.

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Wesley Leonard
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"J. Scott Thurmond" wrote:

> Thanks for the tips...  Several questions though.
>
> I am using Mandrake 7.0.
> Fist question.  The box says fully compatible with RedHat but I have yet to
> find out which version of RedHat it is compatible.
>
> Second question.  The tulip.c file was not on the disk I got with the card.
> It has a reference to an ftp site where I can get the driver.  I got the
> file and tried to compile.  The compile came back with two missing files.
> 1.) kern_compat.h and 2) pci-scan.h.  After searching my drive for the files
> and not finding them I found a kern_compat.h file on the net but I didn't
> find the pci-scan.h file that I need.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> -Scott
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <awilliam@whitemice.org>
> To: <members@kalamazoolinux.org>
> Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2000 7:29 PM
> Subject: Re: Linksys nic
>
> > >> I just purchased a new Linksys fast Ethernet 10/100 card to go in my
> > Linux machine.  I was expecting the bootup process to detect the new
> > hardware like it did when I changed out my video card and ask me to
> > configure it.  It didn't happen and the documentation said if I am using
> > RedHat to refer to the RedHat documentation on how to install the NIC
> > card and to use the Tulip driver.  Can you help me get this card
> > installed and configured?
> > >       I am assuming that you are using Redhat 6.1 because I couldn't
> > get
> > > it to work with the default install either. You can either download
> > the
> > > latest tulip.c from http://www.scyld.com/network/tulip.html or you can
> > > recompile the latest kernel with support for the DEC Tulip chip in the
> > > 10/100 ethernet section. I also use these cards for all of my machines
> > and
> > > they have fixed this glitch with Redhat 6.2.
> >
> > It's not really a glitch,  there was a major revision of the Tulip
> > chip after this card was in production.  The .c file was on the driver
> > disk that came with mine.  A one minute compile and a modprobe was all
> > it took.
> >
> >
> >
> >